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Waterfront Counseling

Waterfront Counseling

  • Blaine, WA
  • Accredited
  • Outpatient

Waterfront Counseling in Blaine, WA, focuses on outpatient services for alcoholism, drug addiction, opioid addiction, and general substance abuse issues. Unique aspects include catering to various age groups and providing comprehensive substance use assessments. They accept multiple payment options, making treatment accessible for many.

Waterfront Counseling is accredited by SAMHSA for its opioid treatment program, ensuring high-quality, evidence-based care. Additionally, it holds a state license from the Washington State Department of Health, ensuring the facility's legal operation and adherence to state standards.

  • Motivational Interviewing: Enhances clients' intrinsic motivation for change.
  • Trauma Therapy: Helps clients process and recover from traumatic experiences.
  • Rational Behavior Therapy: Aids in promoting self-sufficiency through cognitive-behavioral techniques.
  • Group Counseling: Provides a supportive environment for sharing experiences and gaining insights.

Waterfront Counseling treats substance abuse issues, including alcoholism and opioid addiction, and serves adults, children/adolescents, and young adults.

  • 2+ Accreditations
  • SAMHSA Listed
  • 3 Conditions Treated
  • Insurance Accepted
  • 4 Levels of Care
  • Speaks English
  • 14 Therapies & Programs

Accreditations

State License

SAMHSA

Staff

  • Donald E. StaalAdministratorAdministrator at Waterfront Counseling in Blaine, WA

Conditions and Issues Treated

Substance Abuse + Addiction Treatment

Substance abuse is the excessive use of any type of drug. This includes alcohol, medications and illegal drugs. Substance abuse is treated with a combination of physical and mental treatments. Waterfront Counseling patients detox and follow up with therapies that target the underlying cause of the addiction.

Opioid + Opiate Addiction Treatment

Opioid addiction is one of Washington‘s most prominent forms of addiction. Drugs, including heroin, oxycontin, and fentanyl, are the most common. To relieve pain, or ease other ailments, they are professionally prescribed, but they are often abused because they and the feelings they give are addictive.

Addiction is treated by detoxifying the body, so the medications’ chemicals are no longer impacting the individual. Waterfront Counseling offers therapies to correct behavior and target the root of the problem are supplemented during and throughout treatment.

Levels of Care

This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Drug Rehab, Intensive Outpatient, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.

Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOPs) are treatment programs suitable for people who wish to stay at home while undergoing treatment. IOPs like Waterfront Counseling make it possible for individuals to carry on with their responsibilities at work or school, in or near Blaine, WA. It’s easy to find an IOP center that offers individualized treatment protocols.

In outpatient programs at Waterfront Counseling, the Blaine resident can live with their family while continuing with their job or studies. Treatment includes educating the patient on drug abuse, medications, and counseling sessions at the individual or group level.

Aftercare support refers to the follow-up care provided after the initial rehab program. The quality of aftercare support plays an important role in preventing relapses and sustains recovery. Aftercare support at Waterfront Counseling is personalized according to the needs of the patient in Washington.

Waterfront Counseling‘s Therapies & Programs

Addiction in Blaine, Washington can occur due to a wide variety of reasons. Understanding your addiction and the best methods for maintaining sobriety involves learning about yourself. Waterfront Counseling treatment programs include individual therapy for the greatest chances of success.

Customized individual therapy is counseling involving you and your counselor at Waterfront Counseling. This builds a personal and trusting relationship so you can truly be yourself and express any emotions as you feel them. Individual therapy leads to greater peace and understanding about your triggers for addiction and coping strategies to prevent relapse.

Group Therapy is a type of counseling that occurs between a bunch of strangers. These groups are suitable for patients who are not confined in a treatment facility, but group sessions are also common in inpatient rehab programs. Group therapy is led by a trained individual at Waterfront Counseling in Blaine, WA and consists of members from different stages of recovery.

The goal of group therapy sessions is to foster hope and a sense of belonging, share information, and learn coping mechanisms. It also helps to have people who can relate to what you’re going through. Good behaviors can also be contagious, and participants can learn from one another.

Unresolved trauma is often a key reason why many patients resorted to substance abuse. Trauma could be physical abuse, sexual abuse, war, natural disasters, divorce, accident, loss of a loved one, etc. If trauma is the primary cause of substance abuse, then both issues must be addressed.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an approach and method in psychotherapy. Waterfront Counseling asks people to investigate how their thoughts, including habitual, negative, and inaccurate ways of thinking affect behaviors. CBT is based on the idea that rigid, inflexible ways of thinking cause people to have a limited ability to cope with stress

Rational Emotional Behavior Therapy (REBT) is a method of specific counseling that replaces negative and self-limiting thoughts with positive and productive behaviors. Self-defeating thoughts and habits can limit your possible successes. Some examples of this are procrastination, unhealthy eating and angry outbursts. You may not be aware that some unhealthy behaviors and thoughts are sabotaging your potential accomplishments.

In the midst of an addiction certain healthy habits and behaviors can be forgotten or discarded altogether. While in treatment you will learn life skills that will help you successfully maintain sobriety in Washington.

Payment Options

For specific insurance or payment methods please contact us.
  • Health Insurance
  • Self-Pay / Cash
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Military Insurance
  • IHS/Tribunal/Urban
  • State-Financed
  • Sliding Scale
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    Location & Contact

    Waterfront Counseling Location and Directions
    Address
    228 Cherry St
    Blaine, WA 98230

    Phone Number
    (360) 332-1000

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    Waterfront Counseling Location and Directions

    Location

    Accepts

    • Gender
      Female, Male
    • Age
      Adults (20+), Children (0-12), Teenagers
    • Modality
      Group, Individuals
  • Smoking Allowed
  • Ownership
    Privately Owned

    Listed May 26, 2020

    Updated July 25, 2024

    Blaine, Washington Addiction and Treatment

    Washington's substance use, abuse, and addiction rates have followed the trends of the rest of the over the past years. Methamphetamine abuse is the biggest threat to Washington. Heroin-related overdoses increased by almost 450% from 2006 to 2016. 20% of all annual deaths in Washington are somehow drug and/or alcohol-related. Drugs are widely abused in Washington because they are easily trafficked in and out of the state.

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